Re: cron mystery
Robin Becker wrote: [ ... ] before ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. I suspect that $HOME isn't being defined as one might expect-- cron provides a very minimal shell environment for scripts it runs. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron mystery
Chuck Swiger wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [ ... ] before ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. I suspect that $HOME isn't being defined as one might expect-- cron provides a very minimal shell environment for scripts it runs. except that I have exactly the same script running on another box with the same freeBSD version and that runs things fine. Looking in man 5 crontab seems to suggest that SHELL=/bin/sh HOME, LOGNAME are set from the user passwd entry. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron mystery
Environment variables are set first by the users shell which then is used to exec cron jobs. Basically, always take nothing in the environment for granted. -Derek At 10:19 AM 2/26/2007, Robin Becker wrote: Can anyone think of something that can stop cron working for a particular user? I just noticed on one of our 6.1 machines the crontab for a particular user wasn't run properly since dec 21. There were hourly and daily jobs, but neither seemed to be running. Looked in var/cron and see no deny or allow files. The user x had an proper crontab. In the end I modified the users crontab and rewrote it before ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
